"It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly."

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Source : The Medical Sciences in the German Universities Pt II

Theodor Billroth

#Book Quotes #Science Quotes #Progress Quotes

“I got run over by a bug-eyed dummy, I guess.”
“No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.”
“We must desire to be separated unto the Lord from the world and its evil system. We must reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to God. This is true positionally, but it can be made true in our spiritual life only as we yield to the Holy Spirit's control.”
“Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, donâ€™t put a character in a room alone â€“ create a friend, a bystander, a genie, for Godâ€™s sake, any sentient creature with whom your main character can converse, perhaps argue or, better yet, engage in some action. If a person is out and doing, itâ€™s more likely that something interesting might happen to her or him. Shut up in a room with only his thoughts for company well, that way lies fictional disaster.”
“Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within Thy wounds hide me. Permit me not to be separated from Thee. From the wicked foe defend me. At the hour of my death call me. And bid me come to Thee. That with Thy saints I may praise Thee For ever and ever. Amen.”
“At that time I told myself that I didn't want to fall in love ever again. But that night while praying for your happiness Nana, I thought that despite all the wounds and all the pains it could cause I wanted to dream again, and love someone with all my heart.”
“It's an unbelievably tight race for hideous today.”
“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”

Source : Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

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